Revolutionary Anarchist Action (D.A.F-Turkey)
http://anarsistfaaliyet.org/kategori/english/Basically an Anarcho-communist organization. They are active in Kobane too. (not as guerillas though) I am not a big fan of them, they still have some left tendencies. Because most of them were ex-Marxists. Now they are expanding (they are the biggest anarchist organization in Turkey right now) and more young people are getting involved. So I hope these leftist ties will disappear eventually. In 60's and 70's Marxism was really huge in Turkey. It was the only "revolutionary" way. Marxism and Maoism. There were like 50+ different Marxist fractions and not a single anarchist organization. I mean there were even no anarchist publishing from that time. It was completely overlooked. After the military coup in 1980 most of these Marxist fractions/organizations silenced by brute force. (massacre, torture, oppression so on) Social movements were silenced completely and we started licking America's ass like no tomorrow. You know the rest, free-market, shopping malls and so on. So after the military coup some of the leftist revolutionaries (the ones who were still alive and refused to become a capitalist pig. because most of them scared shitless by military and just joined the dictator-capitalism ride) started to question Marxism and their direct actions. (Political arena is really harsh in Turkey. We are not talking about western "academic Marxists" here. I'm talking about militant revolutionaries)
So in 1984 the first anarchist group started to publish a "libertarian" (not in the sense of American libertarian) theory magazine. They could not call themselves "anarchists" because the coup's effect was still there. By the way "Marxists" always accused of being "anarchists" by the state. Even though Marxists refused that word. So in Turkey "Anarchist" used as a curse until mid 90's. Actually anarchism started as an escape from demagogic Marxism and revolutionary violence. Most of the early anarchists (ex-Marxists) in Turkey were libertarian, pacifists. This started to change in mid 90's early 2000's. Young generations basically said "this shit is not anarchism, there are books about anarchism now. we can read. fuck off hippies we want insurrection. Just because you had bad experience with Marxist organizations and violence does not make anarchism a pacifist ideology" But it was the only way to start mentioning anarchism as a serious alternative in a country like Turkey.
Well all in all anarchism is still pretty young in Turkey. We are still trying to figure it out. Some believes that "we should gather masses and we should not overlook the real communism just because we hate our Marxist pasts" and they gathered in R.A.A (D.A.F) in 2007 (I'm not sure about the exact date actually) More lifestyle anarchists are against it. Zerzan and Unabomber are pretty big amongst young anarchists in Turkey actually.
We are trying to catch up with publishing (I think there are 200 anarchist or anarchist related books translated in Turkish right now) and experimental organizations. Gezi Park protests were really huge. It started as an anarchist movement by it's nature. It was absolutely leaderless and revolutionary. Food distribution, building tents, cleaning the area, permaculture practices, building barricades were absolutely improvised and they were perfect examples of mutual aid. I think it started something here. The first anarchist squat home occupied after Gezi Movement. I believe Kobane will bring some excitement to these soils too. Some big shit might happen here instead of west, you never know :)